Concord of Sweet Sounds: soprano Julianne Baird on Shakespeare and the voice

There is much music in the theatre of the great Bard, with about 160 songs alluded to in Shakespeare’s plays. In conversation with Robyn Johnston, American soprano Julianne Baird explores the Shakespeare songbook, and also talks about her own work as a singer, demonstrating the artistry and scholarship that led the New York Times to describe her as 'one of the most extraordinary voices in the service of early music that this generation has produced'.

Julianne Baird is a Distinguished Professor of Music in the Department of Fine Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. In August 2012, she visited Perth as part of the Professors-at-Large program, hosted by the University of Western Australia’s Institute of Advanced Studies. While at UWA, she gave a lecture-recital discussing and performing songs from the plays of William Shakespeare.

To see the list of music used in this program, click on Show Transcript.